Yesterday I learned about https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_community_directory (edit: I got a wrong link somewhere – this one should have been https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index) and my local city sub of https://lemmy.ca/c/waterloo. I can’t find them in magazine search (eg, https://kbin.social/magazines?q=waterloo). They’re not brand new (several days).
If I visit the URL I expect them to have (eg, https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]), I get a 404 and no option to subscribe (I heard some people mention before how Lemmy would show empty communities until the first person on your instance subscribes – not sure if that even applies to kbin and I can’t seem to subscribe anyway).
I can see other subs on the same instance. The whole reason I learned about these subs is because I can see https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] fine. So it doesn’t appear to be the instance.
Anyone have any ideas what’s wrong and how to fix it?
I migh be able to help with these types of links, look for the kbin link extension, it’s available for Firefox and chrome.
It’s an extension I made to help with this situation.
More info here: https://github.com/daniel-lxs/kbin-link